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Here’s how much heat and altitude affects your golf shots, according to new research

Source: Golf.com

By Luke Kerr-Dineen

There was all kinds of fascinating information flying around Coach Camp, a recent instruction conference at The Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, earlier this month. One of the snippets of I found most fascinating was host Andrew Rice’s research on how temperature affects golf ball distance.

Here’s how it breaks down, according to Rice’s recent study, which used a Trackman to test a ball flying 155 mph.

As you can see courtesy of the chart above, the carry change increases by about half a yard between your pitching wedge and driver, capping out at about two yards per 10 degrees of temperature. Rice also found that humidity had “almost no effect on carry,” — temperature and carry were the two primary atmospheric conditions (outside of wind, which is a different matter) that effect your golf ball.

So, if your driver carries about 250 yards in 70-degree conditions, according to Rice’s research, the same shot will travel about 254 yards in 90-degree conditions, and 246 yards in 50-degree conditions.

Altitude, as you can see above, is the other big factor. With a driver, you get an extra 2.5 yards per 1,000 feet of altitude. But that’s not all. The “optimal spin rate” with a driver, Rice explains, increases from 2,250 RPMs at sea level to about 3,000 RPMs at 10,000 feet. Why? Because the air is less dense at increased altitude, so the importance of hang time increases.

All this adds up — and it could help boost your driving stats in the process. Let’s say you’re that same guy who usually carries the ball a respectable 250 yards in 70-degree conditions at sea level, on a calm day. Go play Club de Golf Chapultepec, host of the World Golf Championship – Mexico Championship, in 90-degree heat with its overall elevation hovering around 7,000 feet above sea level, and that same 250-yard drive will now fly about 270 yards.

Just make sure, when you get back home and start boasting to your buddies about how far you’ve been hitting it, make sure to leave out all the scientific information.

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Regardless of inning, Zach Britton should face the middle of the A’s lineup in the Wild Card Game

2018 Wild Card Game Preview: Oakland Athletics

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Oddly enough, one lingering question going into tonight’s Wild Card Game is who’s going to close for the Yankees? It’s a question rather than a problem. The Yankees have about five relievers who could handle the ninth inning, if necessary. We just don’t know who Aaron Boone will use in a save situation tonight.

Since returning from his month-long stint on the disabled list Aroldis Chapman has pitched mostly in the seventh and eighth innings as he works to get back into a groove. His first outing back was a mess. Three runs in two-thirds of an inning and he was all over the place. In four games since, Chapman has not allowed a hit, and he’s struck out eight of 13 batters. That’ll work.

Zach Britton has filled in at closer recently and he’s been excellent, though in two games against the Red Sox the defense refused to turn double plays behind him. Britton has allowed two earned runs in his last 17 appearances and 17.2 innings. Opponents hit .145/.206/.194 against him in those 17.2 innings. The further he’s gotten from the Achilles injury, the better he’s been. A graph:

Britton did not have a normal Spring Training following that Achilles injury. He’s gradually regained velocity on his trademark sinker and, as that’s happened, his ground ball rate has climbed. Britton posted a 77.8% ground ball rate with the Yankees. That is both outrageously good and right in line with his 77.7% ground ball rate from 2015-17. That’s what Britton does. He gets ground balls.

“Arm-wise, I can’t tell you how great my arm feels compared to any other year since I’ve been in the majors,” said Britton to Dan Martin during yesterday’s workout. “Maybe when I was 18 in the minors. I think the time off and wasn’t able to work out and I just rested helped.”

As noted this morning, Aaron Boone has said he’s open to letting Britton close in the postseason. It kinda depends how Chapman felt and looked as he returned from the knee injury, and, aside from that first appearance, Chapman was lights out. The triple-digit velocity wasn’t there, but he used his slider effectively and pitched very well, including in a save situation Saturday.

My hunch is the Yankees want Chapman to close in the postseason. They want him to be the guy at the end of games, which would free up Britton to pitch in other situations. Marc Carig wrote a great piece about the tools the Yankees use to determine bullpen matchups recently. It’s behind the paywall, so I can’t give away too much, but this part stuck out to me:

The concept itself is not new. There’s no shortage of publicly-available data to expose which hitters might have trouble against cutters buried in on the hands, or two-seamers that nick the corners. But the Yankees have used their blend of data to tailor those projections. With their tools, it’s possible to estimate a hitters’ performance not against just two-seam fastballs in general, but two-seam fastballs thrown by Britton, or curveballs thrown by Robertson, or sliders thrown by Chapman. Specific velocity and spin is taken into account and matched up to a hitters’ bat path, which can also be precisely measured.

Given that information, computers can simulate an expected result. From there, game plans can be formulated, strategies mapped out, scenarios anticipated. If they choose, pitchers can use those insights in their own preparation. Fearing overload, many of the Yankees’ relievers prefer to steer clear. But since coming from the Orioles, Britton has embraced the data, which he called far more detailed than what was available to him in Baltimore. In some cases, the projections have contradicted his instincts. In others, they have only reinforced the game plan he had already formulated.

Pretty cool! I remember reading something last year that explained the Indians essentially simulated and projected Edwin Encarnacion’s season before signing him. They used all the Trackman data and all sorts of neat stuff to map out the schedule, and the pitchers Encarnacion might face, and the possible weather patterns. They baked all that into the cake, projected Encarnacion’s production, and used it to determine whether he was worth signing. And, obviously, he was.

According to Carig, the Yankees do something similar with their bullpen matchups. They project how their relievers, with their individual stuff, match up against specific hitters. It’s pretty cool. Ultimately, it’s up to the pitcher to perform. The system may say David Robertson is the best matchup against Khris Davis in tonight’s Wild Card Game, but if Robertson hangs a curveball, Davis will hit it to the moon. Make the most informed decision and hope it all works out on the field, basically.

Anyway, I mention this because it seems possible the best way to use Britton tonight will be against the middle of the Athletics lineup, rather than as the closer. Maybe the middle of the lineup comes up in the ninth and this all works out nice and easy. But what if they come up in the seventh inning in a one-run game? Or in the eighth? The A’s have several extreme fly ball and home run hitters in their lineup. Their standard middle of the order:

3. Jed Lowrie: 33.2% grounders and 23 homers 4. Khris Davis: 35.3% grounders and 48 homers 5. Matt Olson: 35.9% grounders and 29 homers

One-hundred-and-forty players had enough plate appearances to qualify for the batting title this year. Among those 140 players Lowrie had the seventh lowest ground ball rate, Davis had the 20th lowest ground ball rate, and Olson had the 25th lowest ground ball rate. They are three of the most extreme fly ball hitters in baseball. Fly balls tend to be rewarded at Yankee Stadium.

Britton, meanwhile, is an extreme ground ball pitcher. The most extreme ground ball pitcher in baseball when he’s on and he’s been on these last few weeks. The matchup makes perfect sense on paper. The Yankees should use their very good ground ball reliever against the very good fly ball hitters in the middle of the A’s lineup. Right? Right. Maybe it doesn’t work out. Maybe Britton leaves up a pitch up and gets burned. Or maybe the A’s beat him with ground ball singles. It’s baseball. You can do everything right and still get beat.

What does the Yankees’ proprietary matchup system say about Britton vs. Lowrie/Davis/Olson? Beats me. I’d love to know. Here are three heat maps showing where each guy hits the ball the hardest — by that I mean fly balls or line drives with a 95 mph exit velocity or better — against left-handed pitchers. It’s Lowrie, Davis, and Olson from left-to-right (click to embiggen):

If you’re a lefty, you need to keep the ball down against the switch-hitting Lowrie. Against the right-handed hitting Davis, the best spot for a lefty is down and in. Elevate the ball too much on the outer half and he’ll drive it the other way. Olson is a left-handed hitter. Looks like a left-handed pitcher has to pitch him away. Britton and his sinker appear to be a good matchup candidate against those three. Perhaps the Yankees see it differently.

We still don’t know who will close for the Yankees tonight and it’s not because they lack options. I think they want it to be Chapman, but, if he’s not where he needs to be following the knee injury, it could be Britton. Boone’s bullpen usage will not happen on a whim. There’s a lot that goes into these decisions, and it’s possible Britton is most valuable to the Yankees as a middle of the A’s lineup specialist tonight, rather than as a closer. And, if that is the case, it won’t matter whether he pitches the seventh or eighth or ninth, as long as he faces the right hitters.

2018 Wild Card Game Preview: Oakland Athletics

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McQ’s Golf Dome Developing Future Golfers and Elite Players

Mistwood and McQ’s CGP and CAP programs making a major impact on Chicago area junior golfers

The golf industry – with help from programs like PGA Junior League, TGA Premier Golf, Youth on Course, Drive, Chip and Putt, and First Tee – is in its best position in decades in regard to growing the game and increasing youth participation.

Mistwood Golf Club and McQ’s Golf Dome in Chicago are fully engaged with the youth movement through their Competitive Golfer Program (CGP) and Committed Athlete Program (CAP). Both year-round programs aim to grow the competitive junior player. The CGP enables young athletes to have fun while acquiring the necessary fundamentals and skills required to improve and excel in the sport. Participation in the CGP also provides a developmental pathway into the nationally recognized CAP, which is by invitation only.

Seasonal changes in the Midwest do not deter the commitments of juniors involved in the programs. Winter only means a change in scenery moving to the indoor facilities at McQ’s Golf Dome in Bolingbrook, acquired by Mistwood Golf Club owner Jim McWethy in 2012. The 60,000-square foot facility with 40 heated bays, multiple short game areas and swing technology like V1 and Trackman was recently recognized by the Golf Range Association of America as a 2017 Top 50 Range in the stand-alone category. The combination of McQ’s facilities with the CGP and CAP programs has helped produce one of the leading competitive junior golf development programs in the country.

The CAP program was started in 2012 by Mike Baldwin with a focus on elite area high school players.  The goal was to develop their talents to the next level creating a structured pathway to playing college golf. In 2014, Brian Brodell, a former golf coach and recruiting specialist for Purdue University and University of Wisconsin transitioned into its Director of Junior Development. With a greater need to broaden the junior golf impact, the CGP program was created to include golfers of younger ages looking to enhance their competitive spirit with the CGP program. Since then, these programs have evolved into top golf programs for juniors headed by Brodell with the goal of providing the knowledge and insight that is beneficial to the kids and their parents.

“As a former college golf coach, I have a solid understanding of what coaches are looking for in a player when it comes to the recruiting process,” Brodell explained. “With that said, I help players and families with the recruiting process and try to point them in the right direction and answer all their questions.”

Brodell said with juniors going through CGP and moving on to CAP they learn to practice with a plan, how to improve and then get the most out of their work.

“We try to be up front and honest so parents and players truly know what it takes to play at a top NCAA program,” he said. “We help them put together their resume and structure emails that get sent on to the collegiate coaches.”

Since the CGP program launched in 2014 it has impacted over 200 players.  On average four or five move on annually to the CAP program and work on the path to playing collegiate golf.

“Some of the schools our CAP players have gone on to play at include Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa State, NIU, Illinois State, Florida A&M, Butler, and many more at the D2 and D3 level,” Brodell said.

Kim Sullivan, whose son, Raymond Jr., started in the CAP program in 2015, could not be more thankful.

“It was abundantly clear that he was dedicated to the game and we needed to find a program for him,” said Sullivan.  “CAP made a tremendous impact on his game. It offered him skill development, training, and competition. He was also surrounded by top instructors who took it upon themselves to take an interest in Raymond's personal development and to help him advance his game.”

This coaching and guidance led to Raymond Jr. earning a scholarship to play Division I golf at Butler University.

“Raymond excelled this summer and was in a position to have Division I coaches reach out to Brian Brodell for references,” Sullivan said.  “Brian spent a great deal of time with college coaches and was instrumental in helping Raymond in receiving offers to play at that level.  We are extremely grateful for his experience at Mistwood and McQ’s.”

This winter at McQ’s, juniors in the CGP program will receive 30 hours of supervised group practice sessions during the months of December through April allowing the students to work with coaches and other golfers to improve his or her skills over the winter months before transitioning back to Mistwood in the spring. The sessions are every Wednesday 5:30-7 p.m. (ages 8-12), 7-8:30pm (ages 13+) at McQ’s Golf Dome.

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McQ’s Golf Dome Developing Future Golfers and Elite Players

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Mistwood and McQ’s CGP and CAP programs making a major impact on Chicago area junior golfers

Romeoville, IL – The golf industry – with help from programs like PGA Junior League, TGA Premier Golf, Youth on Course, Drive, Chip and Putt, and First Tee – is in its best position in decades in regard to growing the game and increasing youth participation.

Mistwood Golf Club and McQ’s Golf Dome in Chicago are fully engaged with the youth movement through their Competitive Golfer Program (CGP) and Committed Athlete Program (CAP). Both year-round programs aim to grow the competitive junior player. The CGP enables young athletes to have fun while acquiring the necessary fundamentals and skills required to improve and excel in the sport. Participation in the CGP also provides a developmental pathway into the nationally recognized CAP, which is by invitation only.

Seasonal changes in the Midwest do not deter the commitments of juniors involved in the programs. Winter only means a change in scenery moving to the indoor facilities at McQ’s Golf Dome in Bolingbrook, acquired by Mistwood Golf Club owner Jim McWethy in 2012. The 60,000-square foot facility with 40 heated bays, multiple short game areas and swing technology like V1 and Trackman was recently recognized by the Golf Range Association of America as a 2017 Top 50 Range in the stand-alone category. The combination of McQ’s facilities with the CGP and CAP programs has helped produce one of the leading competitive junior golf development programs in the country.

The CAP program was started in 2012 by Mike Baldwin with a focus on elite area high school players. The goal was to develop their talents to the next level creating a structured pathway to playing college golf. In 2014, Brian Brodell, a former golf coach and recruiting specialist for Purdue University and University of Wisconsin transitioned into its Director of Junior Development. With a greater need to broaden the junior golf impact, the CGP program was created to include golfers of younger ages looking to enhance their competitive spirit with the CGP program. Since then, these programs have evolved into top golf programs for juniors headed by Brodell with the goal of providing the knowledge and insight that is beneficial to the kids and their parents.

“As a former college golf coach, I have a solid understanding of what coaches are looking for in a player when it comes to the recruiting process,” Brodell explained. “With that said, I help players and families with the recruiting process and try to point them in the right direction and answer all their questions.”

Brodell said with juniors going through CGP and moving on to CAP they learn to practice with a plan, how to improve and then get the most out of their work.

“We try to be up front and honest so parents and players truly know what it takes to play at a top NCAA program,” he said. “We help them put together their resume and structure emails that get sent on to the collegiate coaches.”

Since the CGP program launched in 2014 it has impacted over 200 players. On average four or five move on annually to the CAP program and work on the path to playing collegiate golf.

“Some of the schools our CAP players have gone on to play at include Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa State, NIU, Illinois State, Florida A&M, Butler, and many more at the D2 and D3 level,” Brodell said.

Kim Sullivan, whose son, Raymond Jr., started in the CAP program in 2015, could not be more thankful.

“It was abundantly clear that he was dedicated to the game and we needed to find a program for him,” said Sullivan. “CAP made a tremendous impact on his game. It offered him skill development, training, and competition. He was also surrounded by top instructors who took it upon themselves to take an interest in Raymond’s personal development and to help him advance his game.”

This coaching and guidance led to Raymond Jr. earning a scholarship to play Division I golf at Butler University.

“Raymond excelled this summer and was in a position to have Division I coaches reach out to Brian Brodell for references,” Sullivan said. “Brian spent a great deal of time with college coaches and was instrumental in helping Raymond in receiving offers to play at that level. We are extremely grateful for his experience at Mistwood and McQ’s.”

This winter at McQ’s, juniors in the CGP program will receive 30 hours of supervised group practice sessions during the months of December through April allowing the students to work with coaches and other golfers to improve his or her skills over the winter months before transitioning back to Mistwood in the spring. The sessions are every Wednesday 5:30-7 p.m. (ages 8-12), 7-8:30pm (ages 13+) at McQ’s Golf Dome.

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Mistwood and McQ’s CGP and CAP programs making a major impact on Chicago area junior golfers

Romeoville, IL – The golf industry – with help from programs like PGA Junior League, TGA Premier Golf, Youth on Course, Drive, Chip and Putt, and First Tee – is in its best position in decades in regard to growing the game and increasing youth participation.

Mistwood Golf Club and McQ’s Golf Dome in Chicago are fully engaged with the youth movement through their Competitive Golfer Program (CGP) and Committed Athlete Program (CAP). Both year-round programs aim to grow the competitive junior player. The CGP enables young athletes to have fun while acquiring the necessary fundamentals and skills required to improve and excel in the sport. Participation in the CGP also provides a developmental pathway into the nationally recognized CAP, which is by invitation only.

Seasonal changes in the Midwest do not deter the commitments of juniors involved in the programs. Winter only means a change in scenery moving to the indoor facilities at McQ’s Golf Dome in Bolingbrook, acquired by Mistwood Golf Club owner Jim McWethy in 2012. The 60,000-square foot facility with 40 heated bays, multiple short game areas and swing technology like V1 and Trackman was recently recognized by the Golf Range Association of America as a 2017 Top 50 Range in the stand-alone category. The combination of McQ’s facilities with the CGP and CAP programs has helped produce one of the leading competitive junior golf development programs in the country.

The CAP program was started in 2012 by Mike Baldwin with a focus on elite area high school players. The goal was to develop their talents to the next level creating a structured pathway to playing college golf. In 2014, Brian Brodell, a former golf coach and recruiting specialist for Purdue University and University of Wisconsin transitioned into its Director of Junior Development. With a greater need to broaden the junior golf impact, the CGP program was created to include golfers of younger ages looking to enhance their competitive spirit with the CGP program. Since then, these programs have evolved into top golf programs for juniors headed by Brodell with the goal of providing the knowledge and insight that is beneficial to the kids and their parents.

“As a former college golf coach, I have a solid understanding of what coaches are looking for in a player when it comes to the recruiting process,” Brodell explained. “With that said, I help players and families with the recruiting process and try to point them in the right direction and answer all their questions.”

Brodell said with juniors going through CGP and moving on to CAP they learn to practice with a plan, how to improve and then get the most out of their work.

“We try to be up front and honest so parents and players truly know what it takes to play at a top NCAA program,” he said. “We help them put together their resume and structure emails that get sent on to the collegiate coaches.”

Since the CGP program launched in 2014 it has impacted over 200 players. On average four or five move on annually to the CAP program and work on the path to playing collegiate golf.

“Some of the schools our CAP players have gone on to play at include Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa State, NIU, Illinois State, Florida A&M, Butler, and many more at the D2 and D3 level,” Brodell said.

Kim Sullivan, whose son, Raymond Jr., started in the CAP program in 2015, could not be more thankful.

“It was abundantly clear that he was dedicated to the game and we needed to find a program for him,” said Sullivan. “CAP made a tremendous impact on his game. It offered him skill development, training, and competition. He was also surrounded by top instructors who took it upon themselves to take an interest in Raymond’s personal development and to help him advance his game.”

This coaching and guidance led to Raymond Jr. earning a scholarship to play Division I golf at Butler University.

“Raymond excelled this summer and was in a position to have Division I coaches reach out to Brian Brodell for references,” Sullivan said. “Brian spent a great deal of time with college coaches and was instrumental in helping Raymond in receiving offers to play at that level. We are extremely grateful for his experience at Mistwood and McQ’s.”

This winter at McQ’s, juniors in the CGP program will receive 30 hours of supervised group practice sessions during the months of December through April allowing the students to work with coaches and other golfers to improve his or her skills over the winter months before transitioning back to Mistwood in the spring. The sessions are every Wednesday 5:30-7 p.m. (ages 8-12), 7-8:30pm (ages 13+) at McQ’s Golf Dome.

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Reynolds Lake Oconee Offers 5-Hour Makeover For Golfers

Golfers are always looking to improve, and now they can in just five hours with a complete-game transformation at Reynolds Kingdom of Golf, presented by TaylorMade, approximately 90 minutes from Atlanta. The new 5-Hour Makeover package provides a tour-quality fitting for a new set of clubs at the only TaylorMade venue in the country where recreational golfers can be fit for equipment in the elite environment enjoyed by PGA and LPGA Tour players and club professionals on TaylorMade’s staff.

Highlighting the five-hour immersion is an individualized fitting experience with the same expert club fitters who create sets for TaylorMade’s stable of tour stars. Each golfer is fitted for a complete set of TaylorMade woods, irons, wedges, and putter. But since new clubs can only do so much, the package also features a two-hour, one-on-one game evaluation – full swing and short game –by a world-class Reynolds Kingdom of Golf staff instructor.

The Reynolds Kingdom of Golf complex includes two fully enclosed hitting bays, three covered and heated hitting areas, an extensive practice range, TrackMan 4 launch monitors, and high-speed Ximea cameras. They complement the highly acclaimed TaylorMade MATT-T system and the onsite TaylorMade Tour Trailer, where new clubs can be constructed, often within in hours.

Also available is the BodiTrack mat analysis to measure weight distribution throughout the swing and onsite video analysis with V1 Sports Technology allowing voiceover copy to be emailed to each participant.

Each guest of the “5-Hour Makeover” package has a choice of luxury accommodations at a cottage or condominium at Reynolds Lake Oconee, and is priced at $900 per person (non-peak season) and $951 per person (peak season), per night; the cost of new golf clubs is separate. Cart fees and range fees are included, as well as $20 resort credit for each night of stay and breakfast each morning. Minimum of two golfers required; additional $100 per night for each non-golfer.

Located between Atlanta and Augusta, Reynolds Lake Oconee has 117 holes of golf, all designed by legendary golf architects including Jack Nicklaus, Rees Jones, and Tom Fazio. Beyond the “Top 100” ranked golf courses and a range of sporting activities, Reynolds has been named one of the “25 Best Golf Communities in North America” by GOLF Magazine and offers a wide variety of real estate options.

Boasting more than 350 miles of Lake Oconee shoreline, Reynolds Lake Oconee also features four marinas, the Lake Club wellness center, and an award-winning tennis center. Vacation guests can choose from individual cottages within the private gates as well as luxury accommodations at The Ritz-Carlton.

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PGA Championship 2017 scores: Kevin Kisner holds on to slim lead at Quail Hollow

A long, hot Saturday at the PGA leaves us with an eclectic leaderboard heading into the final round of the final major of the men's season.

A U.S. Open broke out on Saturday at the PGA Championship, where the best in the world were beat up at Quail Hollow. The heat and humidity were intense and the setup was borderline, with players grumbling about pin placements and pace of play. We've got an ... eclectic (?) leaderboard heading into Sunday in Charlotte. It won't be the Spieth vs. Rory battle we all wanted, but there's a mix of styles and stories inside the top 10. Some notes from Saturday at the PGA.

The Kiz Does It Differently

In an era when the game feels dominated by 20-something bombers, it's a refreshing change of pace to have Kevin Kisner on top of the major championship leaderboard. Kisner didn't come into his pro career with his TrackMan numbers dialed-in and specialized fitness for hitting bombs off the tee. We're trending toward a game that with much less art, skill, and variety than we used to have, opting for primed young studs who try to hit it as far as possible and then figure the rest out later.

Kisner is the opposite of that. He's loaded with talent and was a stud college player, but he had the grind for several years to figure out how his game and talent would work in the pros. It wasn't immediately easy and he certainly isn't some big hitter, ranking 127th on the PGA Tour in driving distance this year. But he's got artistry and touch and skill in multiple areas of his game. So far, that's working at a Quail Hollow course we were told was going to be a bomber's paradise.

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Kisner is not a well-known name for the wider sports world, but he's one golf fans love and will be pulling for on Sunday.

Too hard for a PGA?

The setup that might be mitigating some of the bombers' advantages didn't exactly receive rave reviews on Saturday afternoon.

Ian Baker-Finch, who is, um, not prone to negative comments and critiques, said on-air on CBS that "The greens are too fast for the undulations."

"The pins are on knobs," Jordan Spieth added. "Unless you are in a perfect location, your putt has to be absolutely perfect. You really only have half the hole to make a lot of putts because of where the pins are."

Webb Simpson, who is a member here and lives on the course, said, "The setup has been too tough for a PGA, to be honest."

When the member is grumbling a little bit, then you know the players and caddies are saying a lot more off the record and under their breath. These are new greens with Champions Dwarf Bermuda put in last year. New greens usually mean hard putting surfaces, with balls bouncing off them sometimes like they're concrete. We've seen that several times this week up close and saw it again today. When you know the greens are firm and dried out, you have to be careful with pin placements and that seemed to be the biggest gripe of the players on Saturday. It also led to some pretty boring par golf, with no one really making a charge on the leaderboard and the leading number staying static.

Final pairing: 7 birdies 30 pars 7 bogeys 1 double

— Sean Zak (@Sean_Zak) August 12, 2017

A bad look for golf

Whether it was the aforementioned challenging setup, the stifling heat and humidity, or just a confluence of slow players, the pace of play on Saturday at the PGA Championship was a complete abomination. It's impossible to overstate it. The final pairing took almost three hours to play the front nine alone and and 5.5 hours overall for 18 hole. That cannot happen.

It was not all them -- there were nasty logjams early in the round, with multiple groups just hanging out in the heat on the par-3 6th tee box. That was an early slowdown, but that alone can't cause a round that's inching towards six hours. We watched Jason Day hustle to beat the horn and darkness on Friday night — he was running to a wide-open 18th hole because the group in front of him was more than a hole ahead in pace. I saw the same issue in Thursday's round, as Jordan Spieth, Brooks Koepka, and Sergio Garcia got way out in front of the Day-DJ-Stenson trio. It was almost two holes at certain points.

Day is the common denominator here and an easy target but he doesn't solely expelling the 5 hour, 40 minute round. Hideki Matsuyama is slow and deliberate too, and the heat, the threesomes instead of usual Saturday pairs, and the greens all conspired to produce rounds that should have been at least an hour shorter.

On to the Masters

While Kisner opened it up a bit at the end with a double bogey and bogey in his last three holes, there are still plenty of names with no shot. One of those is the pre-championship favorite Rory McIlroy, who had no illusions about some crazy Sunday charge.

McIlroy finished his post-round press conference with "Looking forward to 2018" when asked about getting to 100 percent health and recovery from his early season rib injuries. While Rory may already be thinking about the Masters, don't rule out mega-low Sunday number that rockets him into the top 10 before this major is all done.

Late-Round Ejections

Perhaps the two biggest names in contention were the victims of late-round ejections that severely inhibit their chances on Sunday. Jason Day threw his PGA away on the difficult 18th, making a poor decision to try some crazy hero shot from the trees instead of just pitching out, wedging up, and taking his medicine with a bogey. The hero attempt ended up in some unplayable lie in the bushes and the final damage was a quadruple bogey 8 that led to a back-nine 41.

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— Adam Sarson (@Adam_Sarson) August 12, 2017

Day didn't have his best stuff on Saturday, but he still had a chance with 18 more to play and with a leaderboard not exactly loaded with accomplished major winners.

While not as extreme as the Day snowman, Rickie Fowler didn't exactly close with a heater to stay in contention. The Ricktator went bogey-double-bogey-bogey over his last three holes, throwing away four shots on the much-hyped "Green Mile" finishing stretch. At 5-under, he would have been just two off the lead and tied for fourth. Now he's 1-under, six shots back, and will need to play ultra-aggressive on Sunday to pull off the chasedown. After the rough finish, he tweeted through it.

It's on tomorrow✊️

— Rickie Fowler (@RickieFowler) August 12, 2017

Fowler is one shot better than Day at this point, but both will need a miracle to leap all the names in front of them in the final round.

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